NASA testing next generation of hiking attire

[Tin Man]

NASA is testing the next generation of hiking attire...

http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com/2009/03/stink-free-underwear-tried-out-on-iss.html

[Manwich]

with clients like nasa, J-Wire will never become a real clothing line. people won't pay $50,000 for a pair of undies.

[Camping Dave]

with clients like nasa, J-Wire will never become a real clothing line. people won't pay $50,000 for a pair of undies.

At $50K per pair and with $2Trillion in "stimulus" funding, you could but 40,000,000 pairs of never-stink undies! Or 2 failed banks and 1 insurance company.

[Tin Man]

lots of stuff invented for NASA at 50K a pop is common stuff today

[hoz]

lots of stuff invented for NASA at 50K a pop is common stuff today

Freeze dried food?
Mylar?
Scratch resistant lenses?

[SGT Rock]

Bobble heads

[Tin Man]

most of our synthetic clothes were developed for NASA

tang was not - popular myth

[Manwich]

mmmmm warm tang.

[ishmael86]

hmmm hiking T-shirt? yes. Undies? I think I'm still going to want to wash 'em.

[Wise Old Owl]

Remember the Dust Buster?

[Jayboflavin04]

I remember the dust buster.....I would pick stuff off the the floor then drop it back out when you turned it off!!!

[Dances with Mice]

Freeze dried food?
Mylar?
Scratch resistant lenses?And the Space Pen! Y'know, the one that the USA spent upteen kajillion dollars to develop a writing instrument that worked in zero-g while the Russians solved the same problem by using a pencil.

Too bad that story's not true (http://www.thespacereview.com/article/613/1).

[Vibe]

Freeze dried food?
Mylar?
Scratch resistant lenses?
Velcro?
Spandex?

[Tin Man]

Velcro?
Spandex?

velcro - not NASA

[Cannibal]

Memory Foam
Shoe Insoles
Smoke Detectors
Cordless Tools

[Vibe]

velcro - not NASA
So what's your point? It's use by NASA made it much more popular in spite of the fact that Apollo 1 was when the discovery was made that Velcro in a really oxygen rich atmosphere was not a good idea.


Are Tang, Teflon, and Velcro NASA spinoffs?

Tang, Teflon, and Velcro, are not spinoffs of the Space Program. General Foods developed Tang in 1957, and it has been on supermarket shelves since 1959. In 1962, when astronaut John Glenn performed eating experiments in orbit, Tang was selected for the menu, launching the powdered drink’s heightened public awareness. NASA also raised the celebrity status of Teflon, a material invented for DuPont in 1938, when the Agency applied it to heat shields, space suits, and cargo hold liners. Velcro was used during the Apollo missions to anchor equipment for astronauts’ convenience in zero gravity situations. Although it is a Swiss invention from the 1940s, it has since been associated with the Space Program.

Neither are many of the products posted already, but you pick MY example to try and prove how "allegedly" more intelligent you are?

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinfaq.htm

[Tin Man]

So what's your point? It's use by NASA made it much more popular in spite of the fact that Apollo 1 was when the discovery was made that Velcro in a really oxygen rich atmosphere was not a good idea.



Neither are many of the products posted already, but you pick MY example to try and prove how "allegedly" more intelligent you are?

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinfaq.htm


lighten up francis :rolleyes:

[Vibe]

lighten up francis :rolleyes:
Back atcha George :rolleyes: :banana

[Tin Man]

that's better :)

my point was NASA is test some stink free duds for future hikers. how cool is that? :)

[Captain K-man]

Velcro, wasn't that found in Roswell after the UFO crash?

[berninbush]

So, how much would thru-hikers pay for these undies if they work as claimed? People seem willing to spend a lot for "special" equipment for their six-month hike, just as NASA does for astronauts in space for six months. 50k, perhaps not. What about $50 per pair? If a thousand people buy at that price, that's $50k.

[Skidsteer]

And the Space Pen! Y'know, the one that the USA spent upteen kajillion dollars to develop a writing instrument that worked in zero-g while the Russians solved the same problem by using a pencil.

Too bad that story's not true (http://www.thespacereview.com/article/613/1).

I'm crushed. Paul Harvey lied to me.

[hoz]

I won't be paying anything for these (unstinkable) undies, I go Commando...

[Kerosene]

Velcro, wasn't that found in Roswell after the UFO crash?No, I'm pretty sure that was Teflon. :cool: